Ready to put your grammar skills to the test? This crossword focuses on the sophisticated structures used to express complex hypotheses in English — from mixed conditionals to subjunctive forms and speculative modal phrases. Challenge yourself to recall the precise vocabulary and patterns that distinguish a true C1 speaker. Good luck!
Horizontalement
- 1. Assume something is the case
- 3. Question word for place
- 3. At which place
- 3. Adverb or conjunction of place
- 7. Grammatical mood expressing hypothetical states
- 9. Depending on certain circumstances
- 13. Conclusion reached from evidence
- 15. Past form of may used in backshift
- 16. Accept something without proof
- 17. Proposed explanation for investigation
Verticalement
- 2. Seeming reasonable or probable
- 3. For repeated past actions
- 3. Modal verb used in reported speech
- 4. Regard something as likely to happen
- 5. Continuing up to a point in time
- 5. Continuing until now
- 6. Belief based on reasonable assumption
- 8. Conclusion based on incomplete information
- 10. Deduce from evidence and reasoning
- 11. Fitting very closely
- 12. Of short duration
- 14. Acceptance that something is true
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